Contributor

Angela Pereira

An American/Canadian citizen fluent in English and French, Angela joined ACTION as a Senior Communications Associate in October 2012. She previously worked in Malawi for two years, where she built the communications capacities of local health organizations and trained journalists in human rights reporting. Angela also worked as an assistant writer and media officer for the International Development Research Centre based in Ottawa, Canada. Angela holds a Bachelor of Journalism and Political Science from Canada's Carleton University and an MA of International Communications from the University of Leeds, UK.

Dr. D.S. Akram is a pediatrician from Pakistan who recently joined ACTION’s U.S. partner, RESULTS Educational Fund, on a tour of the United States to speak in support of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Ahead of the January 27 global funding summit for Gavi, I sat down to speak with Dr. Akram about her work and progress on immunizations in Pakistan. Read more

At AIDS 2014, the ACTION global health advocacy partnership will release new research assessing whether donors and affected countries are implementing World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations to address TB-HIV.
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World TB Day 2014 was packed with ACTION -- afraid you missed something? We've summed up the highlights as the global TB-fighting community rallied around a call to reach the 3 million people who have TB, but don't receive the care they need. Read more

From a Cape Town prison, to tuberculosis clinics, to the meeting rooms of the 3rd Global Forum on Vaccines, the ACTION Secretariat and many of our partners are spending World TB Day in South Africa this year. Read more

The first new tuberculosis drug in over 40 years was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In this infographic, USAID shows the path to TB innovation over the past century. Read more

On the last day of 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first new tuberculosis drug in 40 years. Find out what opinion leaders around the world are saying about the decision! Read more

The sun never sets on the ACTION partnership - especially not on World AIDS Day! From Australia to the U.S - and in many countries between - ACTION partners are working to ensure the public, media, and policy makers take steps to make the end of AIDS, and it's deadly partner tuberculosis, a reality. Read more

From marches, to trainings and networking, to an unprecedented Zero TB declaration, civil society advocates were heard loud and clear at this year's Union Conference on Lung Health in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Read more